Responsibility for Public Health in the Lusophone World: Doing Justice In and Beyond the COVID Emergency

is not the time of the end for humanity, nor will this be the last epidemic.Amidst the pain and suffering, we are witnessing an unveiling: the thesis of the insularity of some societies, particularly those of the Euro-Atlantic axis, does not stand the test of reality.We began this century with the terror of 9/11 in New York.We experienced in the streets of Paris and London, among many other cities, the fragility of collective security; environmental catastrophe scenarios are being drawn now that, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the possibility of unprecedented destruction hovers over humanity.The pandemic helped many, but not all, to think about the fragility of the human condition and the limits of technological capabilities.Researchers in the fields of Ethics and Law are not expected to discover a drug.Their contribution, illustrated in this work, involves thinking about normative frameworks, identifying rights and duties, assessing the adequacy of norms (material, formal, procedural and organizational) and looking at inter-normativities.The issue of justice, which appears in the title, also deserves special attention when we reach the 50th anniversary of the publication of John Rawls' magnum opus (A theory of justice), even if we privilege, as Amartya Sen does, "a realization-focused understanding".At the time of writing -March 2021 -uncertainty is still high, with a number of differences in access to vaccines; new waves and confinements; economic and social disorder that varies greatly from country to country, given the great disparity of means and possibilities, the weight of the informal sector, social networks, etc.However, having followed the project from the beginning, in the role of UCILeR's Research Area Coordinator, but with the advantage of not having been a participant, in view of the results achieved so far, which are not exhausted in this work, we are already certain that something has been accomplished.Finally, a word of thanks is due to the participants: to those who elaborated the project, to André Dias Pereira who was also responsible for its coordination, and to those who were willing to participate, either by presenting papers or by answering the questionnaire.It is up to the reader(s), as usual, to evaluate the work and, if they wish, to continue the dialogue.Furthermore, health, as the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic reminds us, in art.64/1, is not just a matter of rights, since "everyone has (...) the duty to defend and promote it". CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

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